Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Berlin, Communist Party leader Egon Krenz urged closer economics ties to the West and said a new law permitting travel to the West would be announced next week. Several top Communist officials resigned, including the wife of former leader Erich Honecker...
Between the pushing, shoving and occasional elbowing, Harvard managed to get the ball upfield by utilizing stick-to-stick passing and keeping closer control of the ball...
Although officials have placed the campaigngoal at $2 billion, some key alumni advisors saythe number is closer to $3 billion...
Bush's blue-blood ancestry and his Yale education certainly don't qualify him for that praise. And though Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is hardly a farm-boy himself, he comes closer than Bush to matching the class aspirations of most rural Southern voters. Yet they went for Bush in droves...
...part of that whole experience. Let's face it, Elvis' Sun collection and Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds just had to be playing on records. As it is, music today is getting closer and closer to being embodied in the commodity that can only appear in the forms of gold and platinum. C.D.'s may improve the sound, but they're going to ruin the music...